This Week’s Quotation:
Children have very vivid imaginations as a rule, and that is well. The imagination of a child is uncontrolled as yet, but one of the evidences of approaching maturity is the control of the imagination. Those who have uncontrolled imaginations remain childish. On the other hand, many children have their imaginations denied to them in various ways. Imagination is frustrated and tends consequently to go underground. It either goes underground and becomes indulgent in fantasy or it goes underground, and the individual consciousness becomes rigid. In either case, we have a state which prevents adequate reception of the thoughts of God into the consciousness of man..
~ Martin Cecil
Creative Imagination
Attunement Teacher & Author
Imagination plays a vital role in the practice of Attunement and in the life of Attunement practitioners.
Without imagination, a person is often unable to see anything other than the facts of what is. They can’t see what could be.
All too often, people seem to have only bad choices when it comes to imagination. They can engage in uncontrolled imaginations, as Martin referred to them. These are thoughts and ideas that go no place, or at least no place good. They are not part of a person’s creativity.
The other bad choice is to shut down the imaginative abilities—to repress them.
Creative imagination is a vital part of anyone’s life. It is an essential part of the unfolding of the life journey. It is an openness and awareness of what might appear in physical form in the future.
Creative imagination is also part of our uplifting influence on people. If I see the possibilities opening up for you, and I can assist you to see them, that might change the trajectory of what transpires for you.
Creative imagination is thought. But the thought carries an energy of optimism and the spirit of life being reborn in the present moment. When we participate in creative imagination, we are participating in the conscious, sentient universe that is thinking Creation into being.
This is a vital part of the Attunement process.
What Is Attunement?
Attunement is a consciousness practice and an energy medicine practice that leads to personal spiritual regeneration.
Without imagination, a person is often unable to see anything other than the facts of what is. They can’t see what could be.
I have always been grateful that my parents knew how to dream – they always had ideas in their minds, and our lives were fuller for that.
I was a child with a vivid imagination. My dreams were of wildflowers. Not picking or growing them, but being in a field of wildflowers, surrounded by the beauty of nature’s gentle elegance. And I wanted to generate such fields of wildflowers with others. I wanted to be God’s co-creator, along with people all over the earth, so we could live in beauty and gentleness. I could not connect these dreams with a profession to make a living, but life led me to become a designer, and to have an international life, guided by a spiritual dimension.
A great gift to me is a friend who welcomes my imagination, my creative thinking and asks, “what more do you see?” or “How could we make that happen?”. I tend to like to be realistic, and yet I find it enjoyable to explore and dream with a friend who adds to the possible. Questions like “what if” or “who do we know that could..” break up the stagnant acceptance of limitation and sterility.
I relish being with someone where it is safe to consider what spirit might have in mind when I can only see the edges of an idea.
I wish I lived closer and could share more with you, Jane!
I’m reminded of the passage: “Where there no vision, the people perish.” Where there is creative imagination of what could be, we spring forward in living to realize that vision.
Thought can be creative,
Ideas have wings,
Statistics speak in monotones,
Imagination sings.
Love, Tom